We’re looking for skilled and dedicated Nurse to join our North Kent Rapid Response Service with a base at Sheppey Community Hospital.

You'll help us to deliver a high standard of care for our patients out in the community, and to continue to help improve and develop our service by joining a multidisciplinary team made up of  Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in creating an efficient service focusing on admission avoidance and supporting early discharge in line with the NHS 10 year plan.

The Rapid Response team works across 7 days a week from 8am - 8pm.

As a Band 6 Rapid Response Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team based at Sheppey Community Hospital

You will feel valued as a Band 6 Rapid Response Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions 
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

As a Nurse within HCRG Care Group Swale rapid response team you’ll join a team who have recently been through transformation to create a fully multidisciplinary 2hr response service. 

Your days will be fast paced and varied and include offering support to patients and families whom are in crisis or acutely unwell, in order to prevent a hospital admission.  Also supporting early hospital discharges by offering clinical assessment and treatment within their own home as opposed to a lengthy acute hospital stay.  Advanced clinical assessments skills will be greatly utilised within this rapid response role.

You will have a degree qualification and registration with relevant body (NMC) for this role.  HCRG Care Group have expansive training opportunities including apprenticeships available for staff development. The team also have a robust in-service training schedule, where staff enjoy sharing their knowledge and skills with others, outside agencies also attend to upskill our workforce as part of our continuing professional development. 

You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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